Half a century ago, a bored father, Walt Disney, came up with an amusement park. One of the most famous methods of honestly taking money from child-loving citizens turned 50 yesterday. Exactly half a century ago, on July 17, 1955, the first Walt Disney theme park, called Disneyland, opened in Anaheim, California. In it, for just one dollar, parents could not only make their children happy with Mickey Mouse and Snow White, but also choose entertainment for themselves on one of 16 attractions.

The police knew the name of the London terrorist in advance Yesterday, the British newspaper The Sunday Times published scandalous information regarding the investigation into the bombings that took place ten days ago in London. It turns out that last year British intelligence agencies checked one of the bombers, Mohammed Sadiq Khan, but decided that he did not pose a threat. British police do not comment on this information.

Moscow forward Hector Bracamonte became one of the heroes of the match with Spartak. The Argentine striker scored the winning goal against the Red and Whites, beating several defenders and the goalkeeper along the way and mockingly rolling the ball into the empty goal. After the match, Hector BRACAMONTE answered questions from Vremya Novostei correspondent Andrei VDOVINA. — Ector, I’ve never seen such heads performed by you before.

Nafta-Moscow turned out to be the owner of 5.3% of the shares of the state bank Minority shareholders of Sberbank began to disclose their shares. Last Friday, the bank officially announced that Nafta-Moscow, controlled by State Duma deputy Suleiman Kerimov, increased its stake in Sberbank ordinary shares from 4.9% to more than 5.3%. Until now, the only shareholder of the bank that disclosed its share in its capital was the Central Bank.

Beijing hopes for new Kuomintang leader The new leader of Taiwan's main opposition force, the Kuomintang Party, is 55-year-old Ma Ying-jeou. The Taipei mayor and former justice minister won 72.4% of the party's rank and file, leaving behind 64-year-old parliament speaker Wang Jinping. Ma said he would prepare the Kuomintang to win the 2008 presidential election.

Government A resolution has been adopted on the procedure for carrying out interventions in the grain market, said Minister of Agriculture Alexey Gordeev. The minister noted that Russian Agricultural Bank has been approved as the financial operator of the interventions, with more than 6 billion rubles transferred to its authorized capital. for these purposes.

Moscow was shown the art of two thousand years of aging “Ancient Taiwanese Dances” is the oldest program of the Chekhov Festival. True, not the dances themselves of the 14th-16th centuries belong to completely legendary times, but the music that is part of the performance - Chinese scientists believe that it is about twenty centuries old.

The Vremya publishing house released a collection by Alexander Bashlachev With all the variety of names and styles in the controversial phenomenon called “Russian rock”, there are a number of undisputed personalities. There are people whose scale is greater than any genre. In mass perception, they are inseparable from the corresponding legends, definitions and/or labels.

Yerevan hosts the Golden Apricot Film Festival This is the second festival - the first took place last year and was so liked by the participants that this time it was decided to hold it on a much larger scale. Very few films are made in Armenia today, but at the opening of the first festival, Minister of Culture Hovik Hoveyan said: “In order to go some way, we need to take the first step along this path.

The tasks set by President Vladimir Putin to double GDP and sharply reduce poverty will have to be solved not in Moscow, but throughout Russia. In these conditions, the main hopes are associated with traditionally strong industrial regions. The Irkutsk region is exactly the point on the map of Russia that allows us to count on the real implementation of these tasks thanks to its unique natural resources and great human potential.

Moscow lost another election. This time - for the right to host the 13th World Aquatics Championships. In total, four cities took part in the election race: Moscow, Yokohama, Athens and Rome. Rome won the elections by a majority vote of members of the Bureau of the International Swimming Federation (FINA).

Problems with the squad did not prevent the Russians from defeating France on clay The quarterfinal meeting between the Russian and French national teams on the clay of the Olimpiysky sports complex, ironically, became an exact repetition of the 2002 Davis Cup final. In the absence of then-leaders Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Marat Safin, who missed the match due to illness, the Russian team with a new lineup was able to demonstrate its best fighting qualities and win - 3:2.

Belarus and Poland exchanged statements on the expulsion of diplomats. The minister-counselor of the Belarusian embassy in Warsaw, whose name has not been disclosed, must leave Polish territory by July 20. Counselor of the Polish Embassy in Minsk Andrzej Buczak will have to leave Belarus on July 21. Minsk considers the expulsion of Andrzej Buczak as a response to the expulsion of its diplomat.

The Prosecutor General's Office attached Mikhail Kasyanov to the “dacha” case Through the mouth of Vladimir Kolesnikov, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation on Friday finally officially dotted the i’s in the “dacha” story of Mikhail Kasyanov. Judging by the words of the Deputy Prosecutor General, who has long earned a reputation as the main “newsmaker” of his department, the former Prime Minister of Russia can now be considered a full-fledged suspect in a criminal offense.

Vladimir Yakunin announced a new course of development for the company Vladimir Yakunin, who replaced Gennady Fadeev as president of Russian Railways (RZD), at a conference call on Friday for the first time outlined his idea of ​​the state of the company and the prospects for its development. “Our profitability is minimal. The depreciation of fixed assets is close to critical. We require huge investment resources. And our market positions tend to worsen.